Pence Talks More Hitting
February 2, 2008 by Geoff Young
Filed under Personalities
Hunter Pence’s latest entry is up at Inside the Ballpark. In it, he talks about his off-season hitting regimen, including an insane eye-training drill that I’d heard about in the past:
The other thing I’m doing this year is working off a machine that shoots tennis balls up to 120mph with numbers on them. The numbers are either red or black. The point of the drill is to read the color first and as you get better, start seeing the numbers. It’s amazing how much better you get from day to day.
That is just nuts…
Doing something like that would make my head explode. Never mind the fact I wear glasses, and I need new ones badly.
Yeah, it kind of boggles the mind. I’d be, like, “Okay, you can throw the ball the now. Wait, what do you mean you just did?”
Carlos Beltran, as part of his contract, had the Mets pay for such a machine.
Cool, the guy that I seem to remember talking about it some years ago was Jeff Cirillo when he was with Milwaukee.